Art Quotes
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.W. Somerset Maugham
Hear me, four quarters of the world - A relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.Black Elk
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.William Shakespeare
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.Constance Naden
The family is the country of the heart.Giuseppe Mazzini
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.Arthur Schopenhaue
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.Albert Ellis
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.Sir Henry Taylo
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.Albert Coombs Barnes
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.Auguste Rodin
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.Sir Wilfred Grenfell
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.Daphne Rose Kingma
Be careful what you set your heart upon - For it will surely be yours.James Arthur Baldwin
Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.Max Lerne
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.Steven King, The Stand
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.Leonard Bernstein
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.Paul Erlich
Art is anything you can get away with.Andy Warhol
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.George Moore
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.John Burroughs
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.Robert Fulghum
